Year 11 Assessment Tasks and Activities Unit 1 2006

Term 1

Week 1: 30thJanuary –3rd February

Chapter 1: Quick check Questions

Activity 1.1 What’s in a shape?

Activity 1.2 Exploring one of the tools of the biologist – the microscope

Week 2: 6thFebruary - 10th February

Chapter 1: Review Questions

Activity 1.3 Viewing and staining cells

Activity 1.4 What limits the size of cells? DEMO

Week 3: 13th February - 17th February

Chapter 2: Quick Check Questions

Activity 2.2 Crossing membranes

Week 4: 20th February - 24th February

Chapter 2: Review Questions

Activity 2.3 The effect of temperature on plasma membranes

Week 5: 27th February –3rd March

Chapter 3: Quick check Questions

Activity 3.1 What’s in a protein?

Week 6: 6th March–10thMarch

Chapter 3: Review Questions

Activity 3.2 Yeast in bread making

Set up garlic before the holidays

Holidays

Homework: Activity 5.3 Salts of the Earth

Term 2

Week 7: 27th March–31st March

Chapter 4: Quick check Questions

Activity 4.1 Making the most of asexual reproduction

Week 8: 3rd April - 7th April

Chapter 4: Review Questions

VIDEO (MITOSIS – ASEXUAL REPORDUCTION)

Week 9: 10th April - 13th April, 14th Good Friday

Chapter 5: Quick check Questions

WEDNESDAY 12th April Field Trip to GTAC Cells in Action

Activity 5.1 or 5.2 YET TO BE DETERMINED

Week 10: 17thEaster Monday, 18th April–21stApril

Chapter 5: Review Question

Activity 5.4 The digestive system of a rat

Activity 5.5 Different digestive systems in mammals

Week 11: 24thApril – 28th April (25th ANZAC Day)

Chapter 6: Quick check Questions

Activity 6.1 Blood and its transport

Activity 6.2 The Heart

Week 12: 1st May–5th May

Chapter 6: Review Questions

Activity 6.3 Grasshoppers, fish and rats – how do they obtain oxygen?

Week 13: 8thMay - 12th May

Chapter 7: Quick check Questions

Activity 6.4 Transport systems in plants – plant pipelines

Week 14: 15thMay - 19th May

Chapter 7: Review Questions

Activity 7.1 Vegetative reproduction - reproduction without sex

Week 15: 22nd May – 26th May

Chapter 8: Quick Check Questions

Activity 7.3 Human reproduction

Week 16: 29thMay –2nd June

Chapter 8: Review Questions

Activity 8.1 A key to sorting snakes

Week 17: 5th June–9thJune

Exams

Week 18: 12thJune - 16th June (12thQueens Birthday)

UNIT 2: Commences